Lights. Camera. Action.
Hey, it’s still January.
We’re getting through this thing one day at a time.
Movies help, right?
Here’s the most intriguing cinematic options on this Friday 24 January…
Heat – Film 4 – 9pm
The best cops-and-robbers film ever made.
White House Down – SyFy – 9pm
Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx get caught up in a presidential assault.
The Finest Hours – RTÉ 2 – 9pm
Chris Pine, Eric Bana and Ben Foster struggle to stay alive at sea.
Van Helsing – ITV4 – 9pm
Hugh Jackman, vampire hunter.
Lady Macbeth – BBC Two – 11.45pm
Florence Pugh, en route to becoming a star, enters in a tremendous performance in this dark and twisty period drama.
In Bruges – Channel 4 – 12.10am
Colin Farrell. Brendan Gleeson. You know the rest.
Pi – Film 4 – 12.20am
Before Darren Aronofsky freaked us all out with the likes of Requiem For A Dream and mother!, he cut his teeth on an abstract art film in which one man may hold the key to both the stock market and the very universe itself.
Prevenge – Film 4 – 2.05am
A not-for-everyone thriller in which a pregnant woman develops a craving for murder.
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